Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
We all know that Jolly is one of the great personalities on this forum, and a lot of joking is done about his 'life is a party' attitude and everything, but there's a few things I gotta say about my friend, Jolly. First of all, the guy is a real deal meat and potatoes guitar player who knows what the hell he's talkin about.
Second, behind all the hardcore George Dikkel drinkin, cussin, southern drawl is a real southern gentleman to the core.
When we met at UGD, he told me he had a present for me, and after a few whiskeys on ice, presented me with a Jazz Model Bridge as a gift. Let me remind you that he's the biggest proponent of the Jazz model on this forum, and uses it to record some of the heaviest hard rock clips people have heard......which is quite frankly what the Jazz Model was NOT intended for.
His answer is that it's the cleanest and tightest humbucker under gain.
While I decided not to use it in my Les Pauls, since I'm happy with my C-5's and Seth Bridges, I decided to throw it in my HSS strat w/2 Surfers.
HSS strats have always been difficult guitars for me to find a proper humbucker to mate with vintage singles. I've tried a bunch of humbuckers, and Lew insists on the 59, because of it's lower output. Well, I figured "why not the Jazz", since it's low output, tight, and clean sounding?"
I figured right, at least for my taste. It's unfortunate that the Jazz is very overlooked, and doesn't even come in a trem version, although the regular version lines up good enough under the strings. If you're a REAL strat player, who likes the sound of a strat bridge already, but wants a humbucker that retains all the clarity and brighness, only thicker.....the Jazz is your pickup! I've been using it for a month now, and appreciate the fact that it balances fairly well with the vintage singles, but has enough wallop to sound great on gainy tones. Since my guitar has the Fender Delta Tone electronics, I'm able to adjust it's brightness with the 2nd tone control. The Jazz Model is bright, but not too bright. It's basically like a 59 that has a harder sound with more glassiness, but also sounds very even across the frequency spectrum. It's one of the few pickups that can twang like a superhot single coil tele pickup, but also produce super chunky highgain rhythm tones.
Jolly already knows that he can get great metal tones with it in a Les Paul, but I've discovered that it's one of the best pickups for an HSS strat, if you're looking for a pickup that balances well and doesn't sound too heavy or dark next to vintage strat pickups. Duncan should consider offering it in a TB version for that reason, but I guess maybe some others should try it first and see what they think. To me, it matches with singles better than the C-5,
JB, CC, PG, or 59, which I've already tried.
Second, behind all the hardcore George Dikkel drinkin, cussin, southern drawl is a real southern gentleman to the core.
When we met at UGD, he told me he had a present for me, and after a few whiskeys on ice, presented me with a Jazz Model Bridge as a gift. Let me remind you that he's the biggest proponent of the Jazz model on this forum, and uses it to record some of the heaviest hard rock clips people have heard......which is quite frankly what the Jazz Model was NOT intended for.
His answer is that it's the cleanest and tightest humbucker under gain.
While I decided not to use it in my Les Pauls, since I'm happy with my C-5's and Seth Bridges, I decided to throw it in my HSS strat w/2 Surfers.
HSS strats have always been difficult guitars for me to find a proper humbucker to mate with vintage singles. I've tried a bunch of humbuckers, and Lew insists on the 59, because of it's lower output. Well, I figured "why not the Jazz", since it's low output, tight, and clean sounding?"
I figured right, at least for my taste. It's unfortunate that the Jazz is very overlooked, and doesn't even come in a trem version, although the regular version lines up good enough under the strings. If you're a REAL strat player, who likes the sound of a strat bridge already, but wants a humbucker that retains all the clarity and brighness, only thicker.....the Jazz is your pickup! I've been using it for a month now, and appreciate the fact that it balances fairly well with the vintage singles, but has enough wallop to sound great on gainy tones. Since my guitar has the Fender Delta Tone electronics, I'm able to adjust it's brightness with the 2nd tone control. The Jazz Model is bright, but not too bright. It's basically like a 59 that has a harder sound with more glassiness, but also sounds very even across the frequency spectrum. It's one of the few pickups that can twang like a superhot single coil tele pickup, but also produce super chunky highgain rhythm tones.
Jolly already knows that he can get great metal tones with it in a Les Paul, but I've discovered that it's one of the best pickups for an HSS strat, if you're looking for a pickup that balances well and doesn't sound too heavy or dark next to vintage strat pickups. Duncan should consider offering it in a TB version for that reason, but I guess maybe some others should try it first and see what they think. To me, it matches with singles better than the C-5,
JB, CC, PG, or 59, which I've already tried.
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